Re: Aperture
Re: Aperture
- Subject: Re: Aperture
- From: C Glass <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:33:02 -0400
Looks like a photographic management tool for the raw processing environment
that respects the original image, its handling, and the photographers time.
Whether it works for everyone is why there are competitors. It has taken on
a monumental task to make a photographer's tools more useful. It does not
look amusing at its price point.
From the article:
> We think Photoshop is an incomparable tool for other things, such as
> compositing or making someone's nose thinner. Once you use Aperture to open an
> image in Photoshop and change it, the Photoshop version of the image lives in
> the stack. We manage all the versions you create with Photoshop.
> Our job is getting you from 1,200 pictures to 60. Take wedding photographers.
> That whittling-down process is where they spend a lot of time. They told us
> that the single biggest bottleneck is photo editing. Not image editing, but
> selecting which images to focus on. So that's where we put the horsepower in
> Aperture -- in photo editing.
>From the article:
> But Aperture has to be an all-in-one for what professionals do. Compare
> Aperture's price to the price of buying Capture One plus Photoshop, and
> Aperture is less.
On 10/28/05 8:02 AM, "Steve Kale" <email@hidden> wrote:
> I found the comments re price point highly amusing. Like any professional
> photographer is going to say "I now have Aperture and so I don't need Adobe
> PS". Yeah right! Aperture has a long way to go before that happens. I
> simply don't believe the comment that they have incorporated 90% of the PS
> tools pro photographers use. Even if they did, then they'd still have to
> have PS for the other 10%. Sorry but the pricing of Aperture needs to be
> compared with the cost of other converters without the cost of PS.
>
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